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Señor Jehuda, aka "El Blogo de Liberto", is an attorney and media professional with a background in TV marketing and production, copywriting, independent filmmaking, and spontaneously speaking perfect Spanish. A proud Texan who recently escaped from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, he spends far too much time thinking about movies. Jehuda is also a contributor at YesButHowever.com and PJ Lifestyle.

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The Other McCain is aggregating like a MoFo regarding that bombing in Norway story…which in no way should you speculate was the direct result of a radical Muslim plot, because – you know – the mere thought that radical Muslims like to cause wanton destruction foments prejudice…

I just can’t write posts as lengthy as I used to back when I started this blog almost 3 years ago, so I’m thinking of changing the blog’s layout into something that fits more with the micro-blogging style I tend to use whenever I post lately. Something more streamlined and Twitter-y.

It is rarely that I post anything resembling an essay – or a lengthy piece of more than a couple of paragraphs – these days. I just don’t have time working fulltime and all. And, for some reason, blogging on weekends hasn’t been any easier, either.

So stay tuned. I’m thinking I’ll launch the new look early next month, to mark the 3rd anniversary of The Rhetorican.

The end of film: Variety: “Citing collapsing demand for film prints as theaters shift to digital projectors, lab giants Technicolor and Deluxe have struck subcontracting agreements that edge them toward an end to their century-old competition in 35mm release printing.”

I predict the MSM will describe this altercation as “unexpected” and shocking. But they honestly can’t use such words in reporting on this event. You can’t demonize someone for days on end and then feign surprise when an act of violence against the object of your vitriol materializes…

UPDATE: Good point: How did the attacker get in? (plus a link to video of the attack).

Funny how closing the busiest freeway in the country can’t screw up traffic like a visit by Obama can. Last summer – while still living in L.A. – it took me 3 hours to get home while Obama was visiting for a fundraiser.

FilmLadd: “I don’t care who you are. There were all sorts of ways to tackle the story, and with a dancing stripper and rappers thrown into the mix, there’s just no damned excuse for ignoring it, and everyone knows it.”

I just think we need to do something about our fiscal situation, not just have Republicans avoid blame for the consequences of continuing this mad Keynesian spiral of spending money that doesn’t exist…

UPDATE: Related: Don’t leave mad!Obama throws a fit as he tries to do an impression of a great American president (he couldn’t pull it off). Plus a dispatch from the Mirror Universe via Esquire (when did they write that piece? 2009?) . So, I guess no debt deal…

Could a Republican win this so-called safe Democratic seat? It could happen. I lived in that district for about 5 years, I recently realized. When I moved to L.A., it was a Democrat who represented it. But the GOP took it soon after, before it went Democrat again (staying that way for over a decade). Maybe it’s time for a change again…

Couldn’t leave bad enough alone, I guess. It’s not all the White House’s fault, though. Or the Observer’s. A charming Julian Assange wannabe also played a role. And he definitely sounds more than a little proud of his contribution: “If I had the name, I’d put it up. I’m an absolutist.”

‘Absolutist’ is not quite the word I had in mind, though it also starts with the letter ‘a’…

And who knows how many other official missteps had something to do with this? It’s not like they promised us Hope and Change and Competence, right?

It’s been over 12 hours since this story broke on The Observer. But if you Google “CIA agent outed”, you get a bunch of Valerie Plame references. This story doesn’t seem to be getting any traction anywhere. Perhaps, as with war, outing CIA agents is bad only when a Republican occupies the Oval Office…

The sad thing is they don’t think they’re giving up. They are convinced they’re doing the right thing, when in fact the policies at issue couldn’t be more bone-headed. Hey, kinda like Janice Hahn’s policy gems!

Incidentally, Dr. Wife and I really liked Salt, which is steeped in Cold War themes. Much better movie than I anticipated (although the main character’s physical prowess stretched credulity a couple of times). I never would have considered it if it wasn’t for reading about it on Libertas.

Shilling for Janice Hahn: “Can the Los Angeles Times be bothered to do some actual reporting of its own, rather than mere public relations stenography for Democrats?”

Well, that would require the actual practice of journalism.

Janice Hahn’s approach to policy is obviously pretty boneheaded. But she’s a cunning politician. L.A. politics requires a lot of coalition-building given the size of the city and the diversity of its populace. What better way to ingratiate herself with the African American community than “let’s do something about gang violence”? Of course, she expanded that concept into “let’s take some city money and throw it around to do something about gang violence, regardless of who gets it”.

True, Janice is the daughter of former L.A. City Councilman Kenneth Hahn, who was an ardent supporter of the civil rights cause back in the 60’s. So the Hahn name has plenty of cred with the African American community in Los Angeles already. But that might not have been enough…

UPDATE: Thanks to R.S. for linking back. Oh, and for a collection of all my ‘Journalism Is Hard’ posts through the few years this blog’s been around, you can click the link on the Rhetori-Hub, on the left side of the screen…

Twilight of the Rubes: Frank Rich on Obama’s Original Sin: “The president’s failure to demand a reckoning from the moneyed interests who brought the economy down has cursed his first term, and could prevent a second.”